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      <p>

        To delete a record using a cursor, simply position the cursor to the
        record that you want to delete and then call 
        
        
        
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            <span><code class="methodname">DBC-&gt;del()</code>.</span>
            
            
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      <pre class="programlisting">#include &lt;db.h&gt;
#include &lt;string.h&gt;

...

DB *dbp;
DBC *cursorp;
DBT key, data;
char *key1str = "My first string";
int ret;

/* Database open omitted */

/* Initialize our DBTs. */
memset(&amp;key, 0, sizeof(DBT));
memset(&amp;data, 0, sizeof(DBT));

/* Set up our DBTs */
key.data = key1str;
key.size = strlen(key1str) + 1;

/* Get the cursor */
dbp-&gt;cursor(dbp, NULL, &amp;cursorp, 0);

/* Iterate over the database, deleting each record in turn. */
while ((ret = cursorp-&gt;get(cursorp, &amp;key,
               &amp;data, DB_SET)) == 0) {
    cursorp-&gt;del(cursorp, 0);
}

/* Cursors must be closed */
if (cursorp != NULL)
    cursorp-&gt;close(cursorp); 

if (dbp != NULL)
    dbp-&gt;close(dbp, 0);</pre>
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